Make your own Pattern Weights

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It all started when I googled "pattern weights" and was asked by Amazon to "compare prices from $9 at 8 stores" for these. . .

Seriously, from $9...I think that means starting at $9.....for 4 pattern weights.  According to my calculations that's (hold on while I get my calculator) $2.25 each. 

Not I, said the cat.  So I set out to make my own. In minutes I had a half dozen ideas off the internet but none as easy as a suggestion by a friend to use butter knives.  She said she could still remember her grandmother holding down tissue patterns with them. Because I didn't have handy what I needed to make my own, I used my knives for a couple of weeks.  They worked out great and I would probably still be using them if my husband hadn't started questioning why there were never any knives in the drawer. 

Plan B, break down and go get what I needed -- the biggest washers (nuts, what ever they're called) I could find.  Eight of them for $5.  That's way more like it.

I bought the biggest my local hardware store had.

 I ripped lengths of my favorite cotton prints in strips about 3/4" wide.

 A dot of hot glue held the end in place so I could start wrapping.

 I wrapped the washers all the way around until I overlapped 

the spot where I started.

Then, put a line of hot glue across the end of the fabric and 

tucked it into the hole.

Cute!

 ...and they work almost as well as a butter knife.

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